All quite true. Sort of the Tail wagging the Dog. Nor am I have .0001% the talent that artists here and Daz have at making things from scratch. Nor do I really care to be. I'd much rather use the talent from others that are.

But that's happened in many other industry's recently too. It's all by committee now, or board of directors, et. al. There's no ONE voice any more for decisions. Isn't it much easier to just shuffle the problem/question off to someone else? Or just ignore it?

And at some point, that will come back & bite them in the tush. History bears it out.

Fortunately, there are alternatives as has been mentioned. Not always the most direct of course, but keep in mind, Daz doesn't innovate anything of it's own, except the scripts to use other code that's available if you understand that sort of thing. I don't. But, once outside of DS, generally much more control.